Rare Facts About Deming (Santa Fe, Silver City: college, farms, yard)

[Pintada Kid]

Ive never been to Deming but i always wanted to visit that town and maybe someday ill take a drive down there and into Silver City where i use to spend lots of time at the College Library reading some Interesting History books. >>>> I hear Deming has big Vineyards and Chili Farms and Harvest 100 million pounds of chili a year and they have a Museum and a place where the National Guard stay when they are Guarding our Borders and now used by the Border Patrol. I always wanted to visit the town but always driving through to Hurley and watching the Stack Smoke from Deming to Hurley. They finally took those Stacks down a year or two ago. One thing i do remember about the People in that Area they are Very Friendly. pintada kid at webtv.net

[seedy]

I'm reading James McKenna's Black Range Tales, came across this little tidbit. Great book on the whole.

In the forepart of the year 1882 I left Lake Valley where I had been prospecting and headed for Eureka, a recent discovery in the Hachita Mountains, which lie in the southwestern part of Grant County in the border country of New Mexico.The Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroads were at the time working towards the spot where the town of Deming now stands, expecting to meet there before long. If water could be found at the junction of the two railroads it was planned to build a town there.

Barney Martin, a foreman on the Southern Pacific Railroad, believing that water was near-by, put several Chinese track layers to work sinking a well. A good flow of water resulted at a depth of forty feet, and the spot was called Deming in honor of a vice-president of the Southern Pacific Railroad. I happened along a few days after the discovery of water.